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the average black american having no traditional garb to call our own bc of slavery stripping us of our heritage is an emptiness i don't think ill ever get over
https://bonespugsnharmony.tumblr.com/post/616868258114584576/so-i-have-to-questions-since-you-seen-to-be-able
So I have to questions since you seen to be able to find this kind of stuff. 1. Since I’ve heard that Jesse Jackson’s “African American” te
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Idk what’s wrong with you people but that show Pen15 is not and never will be cute. Like that shit is so gross. I didn’t finish it and could only force myself to get through like 3/4 episodes cuz it was too much. It seems like many people can’t relate, but I don’t feel comfortable having two grown ass women pretend to be middle schoolers and lust after actual kids. Or watching a grown woman present to be a child who likes to masturbate. Like I can’t believe it.
There's literally no reason a 1 bdr apartment should cost more than $600 a month. No reason
I’m looking for new places in NY and literally studios and one bedrooms are $1600+ . It’s ridiculous! And that’s without utilities smh
I’m not trying to be divisive but it completely angers me that hip hop and bboy culture doesn’t document black American innovators. You got all these Dj’s before Dj Cool Herc yet people still name Herc as The Godfather of rap. Dj Flowers, Dj King Charles, Dj Plummer etc don’t even have have their own profiles on google obscure blogs just talk about them and that’s it. And for b-boy nobody says anything about The City Steppers and Michael Dungee. It just makes me feel like so much culture was lost through that period and none of them will get their due because most of them are dead.
Is this in reference to dumb asses on twitter trying to say Jamaicans and Caribbean people created hip hop?? If so, that shit is so frustrating. And if you know anyone who knew those non-AA artists, you’d know that they stole a lot of content and had AA artists working to create their “iconic content”. Even cool herc state’s that he pretty much lied about his ethnicity and that he was inspired by/took from AA cultural content and observing AA communities. When it comes onto our culture, there’s no such thing as us co-creating things such as hip hop. Theyre no amalgamations created by the diaspora. They’re out culture and non-AAs are guests and sometimes participate. Just because you think you can participate in our culture doesn’t mean you can take claim. If that’s the case, white Jewish people, Asians, and white people in general should be considered co-founders since they’ve had artists participate in hip hop and other parts of AA culture ( they shouldn’t of course). It seems like people always want to take AA culture and claim that they were created by or are now mostly occupied by non-AA black people. It’s so weird. Even non black people do this. I don’t get it at all.
We owe it all to them.
So did country music. Also banjos one of country music’s quentissential instruments. Early forms of it were fashioned by African Americans in the United States, adapted from African instruments of similar design
African American culture to be exact
I have a lot of feelings about Beyoncé’s new film, Black is King, but it’s just a matter of time before the diaspora wars and claims of cultural appropriation start up again. I’ve seen it starting since the trailer came out but I’d be surprised if this doesn’t become another diaspora war
I'm really ashamed to admit that I don't know much about my own African American culture. If someone asked me what it consists of, all I could say is AAVE, jazz, rock, blues, r&b, our special brand of family reunions, and natural hair/hairstyles (I have problems with remembering things on the spot so I probably missed some things). And when I try to look it up, I never see things from the 21st century, just our history going up to segregation. It honestly just feels like everything either gets taken from us, or is degraded and becomes considered racist/anti black because we get looked at like animals for just enjoying things (chicken, watermelon, koolaid, etc.). I really just constantly feel so disconnected from my own people and it's frustrating trying to find out who I am and who my people are, including our special traditions, music, art, hair, clothes, and just our way of viewing the world
hope I made sense here and haven't said anything offensive, kinda just typing what comes to mind lol
You gotta find a good starting point. Whatever is easy for you to understand/relate. I started with learning about our folklore which led me to hoodoo and African American traditional quilting, then to wedding traditions and holidays. Then the history of the black church and how it retained our culture. Then I went deeper down the AA music hole which brought me to dances and fashion(like I had no idea that durags were worn on plantions and made fashionable during the jazz era. Du rags are goddamn AA cultural wear) and I ain't even done learning.
You also have to learn to connect things we do today to what our ancestors did.
For example, stepping/step dancing which are done in hbcus and among black youth across the u.s can be traced back to the pattin juba or the juba dance in which our ancestors used their entire body to make beats since they weren't allowed to have drums. So basically, Stepping is a 400 year old African American traditional dance but for whatever reason it's not acknowledged. Just like R&B, Blue and jazz aren't categorized as traditional AA music.
Even with ebonics, if you're fluent in it you can easily read older versions of how we talk and you'll realize it's our language and other ppl have trouble deciphering it. If you're from the south, you'd be surprised at how many terms they still use that our ancestors used. Oh and don't get me started on how ebonics, dap and body language are how we can secretly communicate.
Speaking of the south, it's SOOOOO much of our heritage down there. Most of the things you learn about will lead you right to the souf.
It's also good to start learning about your family's history, if possible.
Lemme hush bc I can go on about this all day 😂😂 but hmu if you wanna know more or need help getting started.
yes yes yes to this poster above me! One of the beautiful things about AA culture is how much of it is hidden in plain sight.
I feel like a lot of AAs feel like this, especially since our culture is always comepared to other black cultures in the western diaspora. We’re shamed and called slaves/told we’re acting like slaves when we practice our traditions that our ancestors did, while it’s ok for others in the diaspora to do the same thing. When we do it it’s called ghetto and when they do it’s called culture. I feel like this is why a lot of AAs try to associate themselves more with other black cultures than our own. It’s really frustrating because when you go and try to practice our traditions and be proud, it feels like you’re the only one doing so. Idk if this helps, but I do a lot of research on traditional AA culture and post some of it on my blog. Diving deep into research is a bit nuanced because you have type in phrases like “African American slave (insert top)” which is really degrading but if you do that, that’s a hood way to start because you’ll find a lot.
HAPPY JUNETEENTH TO ALL MY AFRICAN AMERICANS! THIS IS OUR HOLIDAY AND OUR DAY TO SHINE AND GIVE THANKS TO OUR ANCESTORS THAT WORKED SO HARD AND ENDURED SO MUCH FOR US! I LOVE OUR COUNTRY! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🖤🇺🇸💚
After all this dies down a bit there really need to be a discussion on the facts that a lot of black men expect the black community and the Black Lives Matter Movement cater to them and them alone all while completely dismissing the issues and injustice the rest of the black community are facing and have been facing.
Two black women have died in the last week and we have to beg people to remember them and say their names.
A trans man was killed last week and we have to beg people to remember him.
A trans woman was recently attacked by a group of cishet black men but y’all want to completely dismiss it cause it’ll probably ruin the narrative but that’s the reality the rest of us are facing...
All of this! This is why I’ve stayed away from a lot of these protests and activists cuz they only seem to give af about black men and will claim that it’s “black men” and their “black sons” being attacked and murdered. And I see a lot of black wkmen saying this too. It’s like what about black daughters, mothers, sisters?? WHAT ABOUT YOURSELF?! My friend went to a protest the other day and people were cheering as people gave speeches, but once a black women brought this topic up and also said that we need to fight for black trans lives, the crowd got quiet af and everyone had looks of disgust. So...do with that what you may
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Tying in with the ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ strand, we were asked to create a small audio visual presentation which provided a vivid musical…
This video is so cool! Kinda related to my other post about Akan drum in African American culture and it’s relation to our music. The way the Akan people play the drum is so similar to the way we do!
Some more AA culture fuh ya. Fife n drum
African american traditional music: Bessie Jones with Hobart Smith, Ed Young, and friends: Reg'lar, Rolling Under
Some more traditional African American music:
Otha Turner and the Afrosippi Allstate’s- Senegal to Senatobia
So I have to questions since you seen to be able to find this kind of stuff. 1. Since I’ve heard that Jesse Jackson’s “African American” term was forced on black Americans, where they’re any documentation of suggested names? Maybe well liked suggestions that wasn’t negro,black or mulatto? 2. Do we have any kind of historical embroidery, Maybe clothing patterns,Design or adornments significant to us?
Hey! Ya know for some reason I never saw this message. Tumblr never gives me in- app notifications when I get messages. I just so happen to come into the messages after who knows how long and saw I had some. ANYWAAAYS 😅 so yeah I have done a lot of research on AA history and culture. I’ve compiled files of information over the years on my computer but my computer stopped working a while ago so don’t have access to it for now 😓 but I can help with stuff I had on my phone.
So as for Jesse Jackson creating the term African American and “forcing” African Americans to identify with the term, that is definitely FALSE. There are many African Americans who identified as such since we came to these shores and developed our own communities. From what I’ve seen, there were many publications by AAs over the past few centuries, referring to themselves as African American. Including these:
Other names that I’ve seen and heard older African Americans (whether in person or from old publications) referring to themselves as are: American, county born, country born Africans, African, Afro-American, Anglo-African (which only caught in for some considering not all AAs were around that many/enslaved by Anglo-Europeans, even in states that were colonized by anglos). Here’s an example of that:
Ya know it always bugs me when people try to use Jesse Jackson openly using the term African American in the 80s (or whenever the hell it was) to invalidate AA identity, as if a term for people’s identity isn’t valid unless it’s 100s of years old (which ours is). No identity has existed until people created it, especially in the western diaspora, but did you see people trying to invalidate other black people for referring to themselves as Afro/African-(insert country)??? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Jesse Jackson did not create the term, he simply popularized it in mainstream media and like everything else nonAAs get a hold of, people really abused and misused the term and always want to put our cultural traditions and identity up for debate when they don’t know a thing about us! As you can see, I identify only as AA or American and don’t like to be referred to as black American or “black” in terms of my ethnicity because those are broad terms that aren’t specific to our experience and cultural identity that’s been passed on for years.
Tumblr won’t let me attach all of this in one post so the rest will be in a reply. ☺️
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ANYWAAAYYS, in terms of cultural dress we really do have a lot. If you’re not talking about other cultural clothing like hip hop styles, Afro centric clothing, 70s style clothing, church hats, 20s era clothing like zoot suits and flapper clothing, which are ALL created by us and cultural clothing, we still definitely have a lot of cultural prints and clothing that have been tradition for centuries. As for prints, I was actually thinking of making a great posts about this when I finally get access to my computer again. A very interesting AA tradition that speaks on our resilience is our use of what we call faux patterns ( i feel like there was another term for it but I can’t think of it right now, sorry😅) but anyways I plan on doing a post about that very soon. As for older cultural clothing, I found that like AA culture, AA clothing varies very much by location even though it has a lot of similarities. Palmetto hats were often worn, especially on top of head wraps. Blue waist beads, a tradition carried on from Africa, were also another adornment that was often worn (usually by women) which is thought to be a form of spiritual protection. The use of colorful polka dot, white (which has its cultural significance) or checkered/ plaid fabrics are usually the patterns used in AA traditional wear. Here are a few examples of traditional AA clothing that I had in my phone:
These are just a few examples of our beautiful cultural clothing. I really wish that more AAs would carry our traditions and keep them alive. I know when we wear a lot of these clothing’s (even though it is similar to others in the diaspora) people just equate it to slave clothing and are ashamed as a result. Our culture and history entails more than just our enslavement. But anyway I hope that answered your question haha. If you have any more just let me know! ☺️
Ok was anyone gonna tell me that Hillary duff posted a naked picture of her adolescent child, taped to a bed, and seemingly drugged on her instagram story or was that something I was just supposed to find out on reddit????
I just watched the last episode of Steven universe and I’ve never been this sad and dead inside in my life. 😞
